Word: limiteds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Unless Congress lowers the Selective Service age limit to sweep in 18-to-19-year-olds, the draft will soon begin claiming men with dependent wives and children...
...littered the sea. U.S. fighters and bombers, pursuing the rest, found the Japanese main force. U.S. Navy carriers with their fighters, scout bombers and torpedo planes closed in for the kill. More Army bombers rose from Midway. They were not all. Tiny (1½-sq. mi.) Midway's limited airfield space was no limit on the total air strength which the Army could throw into the battle...
...whirlwind tour of U.S. war plants, suave Captain Lyttelton told reporters that Britain's production was now in sight of its limit. For the U.S., he said with pleased amazement, "there is no peak." At Ford's giant Willow Run bomber plant, Captain Lyttelton praised the action of Detroit-made M-3 tanks in Libya as "just the cat's whiskers...
Experiments detailed in a new issue of the Journal of the Aeronautical Sciences showed that 44,000 ft., with oxygen masks, is probably the absolute upper limit for flying. In a low-pressure chamber which reproduced conditions at that altitude, subjects passed the limit of effective activity, were in a precarious state. For all practical purposes, the limit is below...
Even if this ordinance did no more than limit to the large dealers who are willing to pay the required fee, the sale of the less widely circulated out-of-state papers such as the so-called pressure group and party organs, there would be ample all for its veto. But the precedent set by such a ruling, as well as its immediate implications, cut a good deal deeper. From all angles it adds up in the end to a check on the freedom of the press. It shifts the choice of reading matter from the public to the City...